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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 47 km WNW of Prome, Burma

Posted by admin on July 18, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 18.9526S, 94.7924WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Prome in Burma. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 05:16:05 / 5:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/06/18 / 2018-06-27 22:46:05 / June 27, 2018 @ 10:46 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000fpmm. Event ids that are associated: us2000fpmm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 94.7924 East, latitude 18.9526 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Myanaung, Paungde, Myaydo (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 47 km (29 miles) from Pyay (c. 135 300 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Thayetmyo (c. 98 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Myaydo (c. 57 900 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Myanaung (c. 42 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Paungde (c. 37 000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Myanmar (c. 53 414 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km WNW of Prome, Burma. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.7924° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 18.9526° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km WNW of Prome, Burma Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-06-27 22:46:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-07-18 03:22:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 390 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.777 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 116 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000fpmm Id of event.
Event Code 2000fpmm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000fpmm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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